Ludwig Arnold (politician)

Ludwig Arnold (born February 18, 1905 in Mannheim ; † May 30, 1962 in Berlin ) was a German party functionary ( KPD / SED ), deputy director of the SED party college and head of the Marx-Engels-Lenin Institute (later the Institute for Marxism -Leninism at the Central Committee of the SED ).

Life

Arnold, the son of a cooper and carpenter , did an apprenticeship as a fitter after attending elementary school in Mannheim from 1919 to 1922. From 1922 to 1925 he worked as a blacksmith in his hometown. In 1923 he became a member of the Communist Youth Association of Germany . From 1925 to 1930, Arnold was in the United States doing odd jobs in San Francisco . From 1926 to 1930 he was a member of the United States' Communist Youth Association. Arnold stayed in the Soviet Union from 1930 to 1945 and was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1931 to 1945 . From 1931 to 1942 he worked as a locksmith and electrician in the SIS automobile factory in Moscow . From 1933 to 1936 Arnold studied under the code name Herbert Korn at the Communist University of the National Minorities of the West . In 1936 he received Soviet citizenship, which he retained until 1952 when he was granted East German citizenship. In November 1941 he was evacuated to Ulyanovsk and worked there as a locksmith. In 1942/43 he was drafted into the labor army. From 1943 he carried out political work among German prisoners of war and was a teacher at an Antifa school in 1944/45 .

Arnold returned to Germany in 1945 and joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in the same year. He was a teacher at the party school in Dresden - Hofewiese and secretary of the KPD district leadership in Zwickau . Since the compulsory unification of the SPD and KPD now a member of the SED, Arnold was head of the district party school in Schweinsburg from 1946 to 1948 and then from 1948 to 1950 teacher and deputy headmaster of the state party school in Ottendorf . From 1950 to 1952 he was a teacher of political economy and head of the distance learning department of the party college "Karl Marx" and its deputy director. From 1952 he was acting head, then head of the Marx-Engels-Lenin Institute at the Central Committee of the SED, where he played a key role in the publication of the Marx-Engels works . From 1958 Arnold was a member of the editorial board of the magazine Contributions to the History of the German Labor Movement .

His urn was in the grave conditioning Pergolenweg the memorial of the socialists at the Berlin Central Cemetery Friedrichsfelde buried, where his wife Grace born Snyder is buried.

Awards

• Medal "For Combative Merit" (USSR, 1945)
• Patriotic Order of Merit in Bronze (1959)

literature

• Martin Broszat , Gerhard Braas, Hermann Weber (eds.): SBZ manual: State administrations, parties, social organizations and their executives in the Soviet zone of occupation in Germany 1945–1949 . 2nd Edition. Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-486-55262-7 , p. 861.
• Gottfried Hamacher et al. (Ed.): Against Hitler. Germans in the Resistance, in the armed forces of the anti-Hitler coalition and the "Free Germany" movement. Short biographies. (Series: Manuscripts / Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, Vol. 53). (PDF file; 873 kB). Dietz, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-320-02941-X , p. 21.
• Bernd-Rainer Barth :  Arnold, Ludwig . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .